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To: shane forbes who wrote (6868)	10/24/1997 2:19:00 PM
From: Eugene Kislenko	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

* off topic * RE: IE and OS. I think the confusion comes from MSFT itself. What they are trying to accomplish now is to integrate Internet Explorer (IE) and Desktop Shell. If you guys played with IE 4.0 you'll know what I'm talking about. As part of the "transition process" they started to move some User Interface (UI) functionality into standard operating systems components (core components). I'm talking about replacing tool bar with "cool bar" (or stripe bar), double-clicking with HTTP-like "anchor" type of links etc. They doing it using so-hated by some participants of this thread Active X (COM) controls. Therefore, IE itself IS NOT PART of the operating system (Win 95 or NT, or other), but rather PARTS OF THE operating system was changed in order to accommodate IE functionality. The only big piece of dispute here can be the fact that MSFT's IE group can call Operating System or Development tools folks if something "not exactly working good together" and the will "fix the problem". Later on changes of course will be released to public in form of "Service Packs". Other developers just don't have this luxury and forced to wait for public release of SPs to gain the same power. Sorry guys for being little bit to technical here. Good investing to all EK